Search Engine Strategies will hold its first conference in China next March 17 & 18th in Nanjing. The city of Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province and is located about 5 hours west of Shanghai. The search scene in …

We’ve noticed a lot of talk recently about the phenomenon commonly referred to as ’smart pricing’. There are some misconceptions out there about this, so we wanted to provide a few facts about smart pricing and how to ensure you’re maximizing your revenue. 1. Many factors determine the price of an adMore than conversion rate goes into determining the price of an ad: the advertiser’s bid, the quality of the ad, the other ads competing for the spa

Earlier this week we pushed out a new release of Reader. Most of the changes are under the hood and should make for a faster, smoother experience. However, there were a few user interface tweaks too. My favorite is support for the space keyboard shortcut. In all browsers, pressing the space key moves down in the current page

Nielsen Media Research (NMR) Italia is now including online marketing expenditure in their monthly monitoring of the Italian Advertising Market.

A joint workgroup between the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) Italy and AssoInternet has developed guidelines to monitor advertising expenditure online, …

French domain names are notoriously difficult to obtain. The ‘liberalization’ of the procedure in 2004 had little effect on easing the process. Sure, non-French citizens could now register an .fr domain name but only if they provided a French Identity …

Oct. 19 - The ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan (www.soumu.go.jp) has announced the number of Blog and SNS registrations as of September 30, 2005.

According to the announcements, there are 4.73mil registered Blog users and 3.99mil registered SNS …

The ex-government owned Iceland Telecom has been sold. This major player on the Iceland Telecom market was privatized recently and sold to highest bidding Investors. The future prospects of Iceland Telecom’s operations are good and the company has a …

Yandex, the leading Russian search engine, have just announced the launch of a contextual advertisement program for webmasters. For the first time the Yandex Direct (PPC) adverts will be placed on web sites as well as displayed next to the …

The Icelandic search engine FINNA.is has gone through some changes, being one the of two major players in local search here in Iceland the decided to change from Overture WWW results to Google. After having built their own crawler …

ADSL 2, the new generation of DSL connections, will soon be available in a number of locations throughout Italy within the next few months. In a recent interview Andrea Podda, Technical Director of Tiscali, announced that new DSL profiles …

I’ve written my share of Greasemonkey scripts. I’m therefore very glad that in turn other people are writing their own scripts for Google Reader. We make no guarantees that we won’t (inadvertedly) break them, but we’ll certainly be looking at them for inspiration as to what our users want out of the application.

Get Google Reader scripts and more at the Userscripts.org repository. To learn more about Greasemonkey and learn how to install scripts, check out the excellent Dive Into Greasemonkey.

First post! Everyone from the Google Reader team would like to say hello. (Say hello, everyone.)

(Everyone looks up while still typing.) “Hello, internet.”

I’m lucky I got their attention - the last two weeks have been a whirlwind. Most products at Google see incredible attention whenever they’re released and Reader followed this now familiar pattern:

Speculation
Deluge
Feature requests

Given that some servers survived their newfound celebrity and that all of the team members are still breathing (just checked again) I’m willing to call this a remarkable success

Oct. 12: Nifty’s (www.nifty.com) pod casting site “Podcasting Juice” has launched the English version of Mainichi weekly podcast. (mainichi-podcasting.cocolog-nifty.com)

The service is provided for free. Podcasting Juice, which opened in July, now has 620,000 users.

Oct. 11, Yahoo! Japan kicked off it’s beta version of area search service. (area-search.yahoo.co.jp)

It provides two search windows, the firlst one for the location/landmarks, and the other one for the type of businesses that you are looking for, i.e., “Osaka” …

Mirago chose to launch its new advertising network in Sweden at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Stockholm where the first advertisers were formally signed up to advertise. Mirago is a UK-based pay per click search engine and has …

Goolge map services had previously listed Taiwan as a province of China creating an uproar in Taiwan and protests from legislators and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Google has has now changed that listing to read “Taiwan”. Google …

A new search engine www.terrawiz.com has been launched to search for the websites with contents relevant to India. The search engine has also a directory with about 15 generic subjects and also information related to the individual states of …

A little battle took place today on an auction for the Bulgarian national A-class Wireless Network licence. All top players in the Bulgarian communications industry were there bidding for 2 licences which allow the building of national-wide wireless network in …

Some countries rarely make it into the limelight. So just to be fair and give them the attention they deserve, here is a quick glance at Belarus.

According to Sergei Rudnev of the Ministry of Communications Informatization Department in Belarus, …

Video Research Interactive Inc. (www.videoi.co.jp) has put out the results of Internet Usage report for the week of Sept. 19-25.

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1. Search/Portal Sites - 19.3mil
2. ISPs - 14.7mil
3. Community Sites - 12.9mil
4. IT Information Sites - 15.4mil
5. Corporate Sites - 6.0mil

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1. Format is important for multiple ad unitsPlacing a skyscraper above the fold on the left side of your forum seems to produce slightly better performance than other positioning. However, when using multiple ad units throughout the page our horizontal bias still favors the leaderboard. See the Forum Heat Map below for more details.2. Display your ad units where repeat users will notice themA leaderboard at the very top fits nicely next to the l

Yahoo Japan (www.yahoo.co.jp) has officially kicked off its Yahoo Search Japan (search.yahoo.co.jp) on October 3rd.

With new Yahoo Search, the results from the robot search by “Yahoo! Search Technology” (previously known as “page results”) will be displayed first instead of …

On the Google map service Taiwan is listed as a province of China which has sparked a protest from the legislators of the pro-independence Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU). They are asking the government to launch a formal protest and …

RIA Novosti reports that there are now 180,000 web-sites on Runet, the Russian Internet domain. These figures were announced this Friday by Mikhail Seslavinsky, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Print and Mass Media.

He said that the about …

The UK’s Internet Advertising Bureau - IABUK - has published its bi-annual report underlining rocketing online advertising spend in the UK reaching £490.8 million in just half a year. This means that the advertising spend in the UK …

A recent study by the e-Media Institue of Milano has identified a strong 18% growth in online marketing expenditure in 2005 when compared to the previous year.

The study called NON SOLO BANNER was carried out between July and September of …

Vladimir asks: Do you have any plans to offer other payment options to Russian publishers?Inside AdSense says: We’re working hard to provide additional payment options to a wider set of publishers, but we don’t currently have a date for when new options may become available in Russia or any other location. At this time, publishers in Russia are only eligible to receive payments in US Dollar checks.Publishers in some other locations may have a

Three ethnic Chinese were accused of making racist remarks on the Internet against members of the Malay community and will be charged under the Sedition Act. This is apparently the first time modern Singapore has used the Sedition Act …